Limitations by Group Delay Ripple on Optical Beam-forming With Chirped Fiber Grating

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5619-5625

  Thai, Pham Quang ^a   Alphones, Arokiaswami ^a   Lim, Desmond R ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DSO   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chirped fiber grating; group delay ripple; optical phased array antennas

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008051021     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2032786     Document Type: Article

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